Spying, Surveillance, and Privacy in the 21st Century

Installing software, apps, and games often requires granting permissions that allow access to personal data. Yet our day-to-day lives involve transactions that reveal sensitive information without expressed consent?or even our knowledge that this data is collected. Beyond corporate and domestic surveillance, governments engage in outright espionage, which is much more difficult to track or scrutinize. The relationship between spying, surveillance for public safety (or data collection that shapes exciting new products and services), and the right to privacy is a tenuous balancing act. How do governments, corporations, and individuals collect information? How do they use that data? Spying, Surveillance, and Privacy in the 21st Century explores the technology behind espionage and surveillance, issues of legality, and what is gained?and lost?when we trade privacy for information.

Each Book Contains
? The pros and cons of surveillance
? Information about technological advances used in spying and surveillance
? Case studies profiling figures like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, who continue to shape policy and make headlines
? An analysis of the debate about the right to privacy versus the use of surveillance and spying to ensure public safety
Curriculum Connections
? Presents ideas that foster debate about technology versus privacy
? Indicates the ways that personal data is collected and used?and how it can be secured
? Looks at the ways that governments around the world regulate spying and surveillance
? Traces the history of government surveillance